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Is what I'll be reminded of every time I see a tweet of this anime weekly.

As someone who was hyped for this show to get it's adaptation to trying my hardest to stay loyally in love with it, I can't.

Do not get me wrong, it started off great and the fact people were trying to call it a Evangelion rip-off annoyed me to the max but with the amount of content we have right now and how the "story" has progressed, I think you're giving it WAY too much credit to even call it on par with Evangelion.

We first get to meet 002 ... who someway somehow won over the easy pleasing bottom tier part of the anime community, I mean she's basically a Rem of this season who'll most likely fall off the radar as the year carries on. She has the typical personality of "my past was horrible so now I'm aiming to create a future better". Cliché much?

We then have a dull, and boy is ever so dull, MC who doesn't fit in where he belongs EVEN though he basically created that group of bond because of their childhoods. Oh by the way you might as well call all of them orphaned because they were just given up.

I seriously wanted this show to be good but it's so... typical. These past 2 episodes were nothing but fan service and you'll laugh when I say this because my profile is decked in ecchi stuff but damnit, STOP IT. This was supposed to be a great Mecha anime but instead turned itself into a want to be Infinite Stratos. If I want ecchi stuff I'll go watch hentai but not anime, anime is supposed to be all the good shit without the tiddies and nudity mucking up the show. That's when you know a studio isn't shit, when they fork out 2 episodes of fanservice shit. I can bet my life they're making figs right now with the girls in their suits being melted off just like how I can bet they're making the beach ones.

I won't tell you to go watch it, shoot, I won't even bother talking to you about it if you bring it up to me. The anime started off great and is now going downhill and NO I'm not someone who needs to see action all the damn time like some simpleton but damnit give me a story I can happily say I enjoyed!!! 24 episodes and this is what they're bringing. PATHETIC.

You see my rating and you've read how I feel now you go and see what you think.

I wanted to love this anime so badly but as history will teach us: Expectations can lead to disappointments.

Thanks for reading!!

**WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS**

First review, no promises of being good. TL;DR at the end for the anti-long readers.

To come from nothing.. No parents.. no siblings.. no pets.. no house. Having only 1 ability that keeps you alive and keeps you moving. That ability is to kill.

Violet Evergarden, an emotionless child soldier with no background and no trust in her fellow man. She's renowned for her startlingly impressive skills as a killer and was often referred to as "Gilbert's weapon".

We meet our main character in a dream of hers with her Major, Gilbert. It happens to be one of many memories she cherishes of him because ... of a gift that shines the same color as his eyes. We then see Violet awaken from her memory-like dream and this is when our story with Violet begins.

What is one, who knows only to kill, to do when there is no war and no need for killing? As a child soldier she will now have to learn how to become.. human or what the military kids these days call a "civvy" (civilian). The hands she used to take lives will now be used to bring lives together... in a sense.

**{{SPOILER}}**
{{As Violet works within her new job she soon yearns to understand what the final words of her Major mean.. 「愛してる」or "I love you" and so begins her journey to become an Auto Memory Doll.}}

After Violet finishes her schooling (of course with some struggles along the way) she then travels with Iris, another Auto Memory Doll, to see what the work is like and to have an even better understanding of what her duties will be. As Iris and Violet arrive, Iris then realizes she wasn't hired by some unknown woman but instead hired by her mother. As Iris faces troubles with her family along with Violet not understanding why, the stubborn Iris finally gives in and explains her troubles and how she feels about the whole situation.

After Violet helps Iris in her hometown she is soon hired by the Princess to help write a letter to her new husband. A man the Princess met a few years prior whom, she instantly fell in love with but never saw again. Violet is then tasked with writing letters of reply to the Prince but the Princess realizes that the letters, just like hers, are being written by another Memory Doll. The Princess, displeased because she knows these aren't the Prince's true words, opens up to Violet and at which then Violet asks for permission to overstep her position and help the Princess.

After Violet finishes her help with the Princess and has gained some fame as an Auto Memory Doll she's then hired by the Shahar Observatory. (Basically a big ass library that contains books on astronomy. Books are important kids make sure you read them even if they're manga.) Her job is to help re-write the old and deteriorating books as her partner, a member of the Manuscript Division, reads off the words she has to write down. I'd like to go into further details of the two during this but that would ruin a fairly good episode on Violet and what she's come to understand about "feelings/emotions".

This next arc again, I would love to summarize here but there's so much that relates to Violet's past that even mentioning a few lines would spoil it but what I will say is that these 2 episodes (7-8) have taken some the questions I wanted to know and answered them along with the theories I came up with and debunked them. I now catch myself eagerly waiting for the next episode to come to see what happens next.

TL;DR
Violet Evergarden is not for everyone. It's about a child soldier who only knows 1 thing, becoming a human-being in heart and soul. Some will hate on it because it's slow, some will even try to poke holes in it's plot and then deem it sh*t, some will even try to say Violet is dead and not building as a character at all. I say ignore all that and watch the anime to see for yourself. If it caught your eye and you're debating on watching it, just do it. If you don't like it, drop it. If you like it, GREAT! Just because a few people don't like it doesn't mean you won't either. They aren't you and you aren't them.

Thanks for reading!!

Note: My rating isn't official I only put one cause well I had to. It's a rating on how I feel at the moment and that can change when the anime finishes. When the anime does finish, I'll be changing the score but not here.